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Andrade El Idolo NEW CHAMP! United Empire Capture All The Gold! | NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Review
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- Tru Heel Heat
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- May 6, 2026
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- 10145
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Summary
Join SP3, J-News & Sonal for our NJPW Wrestling Dontaku 2026 Review breaking down the two-night event ft. Callum Newman vs Shingo Takagi for the IWGP Heavyweight Title & Yota Tsuji vs Andrade El Idolo for the IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship. TIME STAMPS: 0:00 Intro 3:18 SP3, J-News & Sonal welcome you to the show 8:16 Thoughts on big tag team match for Ignition To Dominion main event 10:46 JC Mateo aka Jeff Cobb & Tonga Loa get released from WWE / will they return from NJPW? 21:37 Breaking down the cautionary tale of Jeff Cobb leaving New Japan for WWE 31:16 J-News w/some advice for those who sign with WWE / better success rate starting on NXT if you are from New Japan Show Recap 41:01 Overall thoughts on 2 night Wrestling Dontaku events Day 1 43:24 Hontai vs Taguchi Japan 6-Man Tag 48:12 Knockout Brothers vs Tomoaki Honma & Masatora Yasuda 50:50 Hontai & Mistico vs TMDK 8-Man Tag / Mistico & Desperado challenge Ichiban Sweet Boys 57:20 United Empire vs Goto Revolutionary Army 6-Man Tag 1:03:22 Konosuke Takeshita & Shota Umino vs House of Torture 1:09:14 Unbound Co. vs United Empire 10-Man Tag 1:17:09 Aaron Wolf vs Don Fale 1:20:59 Ren Narita vs Boltin Oleg (NEVER Openweight Championship) / challenge from Aaron Wolf for Narita 1:30:36 Yota Tsuji vs Andrade El Idolo (IWGP Global Heavyweight Championship) / Drilla Moloney & Shota Umino challenge Andrade 1:41:10 Andrade & Tsuji both Top 5 wrestlers of 2026 / thoughts on what's next for Global Title / when we get round 3 of Andrade/Tsuji? 1:45:18 Ospreay wanting to be the bridge from AEW to NJPW / short title runs in 1st reign 1:48:38 Ratings on Day 1 Day 2 1:50:40 Masatora Yasuda vs Taisei Nakahara (Pre-Show) 1:52:18 Konosuke Takeshita vs Chase Owens (NJPW World TV Championship…